For Sunday dinner Paul gave me a shopping list for the garden - carrots, peas, potatoes, broccoli, beetroot and strawberries so off I trotted with my trug and Tiggy who insists on overseeing the process, it's so very satisfying to get all that veg straight out of the garden and it be especially tasty and no chemicals involved! The sweetcorn is coming on very fast with more hairy bits each day which we are presuming are the start of the corns, I'll have to go and purchase some of those forky things for eating them straight off the cob covered in butter!
Gardening: July 2006 Archives
Our neighbour Nicci knocked on the door last night to say we might want to come and catch some plums?! Very sadly the old plum tree in their garden with a large branch hanging over which is laden with plums this year - which I had great plans for crumble and wine! had rather excelled itself and the weight was cracking some branches so we had to pull most of the fruit off to try and save it! So I spent an hour last night on a stool picking very unripe plums - anyone with ideas what to do with several pounds of them let me know!
How weird is this, found it on my small silver birch tree, this leaf must be particularly tasty!
Tasty peas and lovely smelling sweet peas! Rather pleased with the photo of peas in the colander - although the novelty of shelling peas wore off halfway through the trug and you seem to end up with far fewer peas than you expect from the amount of pods (although the amount that popped off and disappeared goodness knows where and the ones that looked particularly tasty may account for it somewhat!) I was never really a fan of peas until I grew them but pop open a pod of small peas and they are really sweet and delicious.
Come to look at it I never really ate much veg. but once you get excited about growing it you end up eating it because you have to taste what you've grown and also because Paul can't manage an entire vegetable plot on his own (even with a little help from Bob the bunny)
Well this seems to be going okay so here's the beetroot!
With all the rain and then lots of sun the beetroot went into overdrive and a lot has had to be pulled now as it's already beginning to reach monster proportions. Paul had planned on pickling it as last years attempts at storing it in sand didn't go too well, however after filling every jar he could find and running out of pickling vinegar we still have an awful lot of beetroot! Linda from next door however came to the rescue and photocopied instructions on how to freeze it from her Good Housekeeping Manual! (perhaps I should have one of these?). So the extra freezer we had to buy last year when we ran out of space for cabbage is filling up already - will we be needing one of those catering size chest freezers?
here's some of the beetroot posing beautifully in my trug!
This is Tiggy helping with the gardening!
Well, here it is - My Blog! there you are pottering through life doing a spot of gardening or knitting and getting excited when you pick your first home grown pea or finish your first jumper, not for a minute thinking that anyone else could be interested enough out there to read about such an occasion - and then you get into blogging!
So now all of you still living down south (where we moved from to sunny Scotland), my very very good mateys in Ireland (without whom blogging would still be a mystery!) and goodness knows who else can see and hopefully enjoy my hobbies with me!
I will now attempt to upload a photo of the above mentioned peas! and if it goes well the beetroot is looking forward to a mention next!
